Great Comics Publications had an insane ensemble of superhero characters, the craziest of whom had a single but iconic appearance in Great Comics #3. Futuro leads a society of high-tech heroes called the U.S. Futurians with jetpacks that run on cosmic gas. Some of these rocketeers are named Faith, Freedom, Truth, Courage, and Justice. The U.S. Futurians have their flying dog Nimbus track down Adolf Hitler to his castle, who is shown wearing his royal gold/yellow duds. Futuro and his troops use invisibility devices to capture Der Fuehrer. They literally dropkick Hitler into Hell, where a mob of demons hand him over to a foppish Satan. The Devil tries to gain access to Futuro's futuristic powers, so he and Hitler then do a supervillain team up, although their scheme is foiled by Satan's lovesick witch girlfriend. Futuro teleports Hitler out of Hell to "face the justice of mankind", leaving the reader to believe Hitler was packaged off to the Allied Forces for war crimes, but the story ends with Futuro's lackeys asking him what surprise he has in mind, with a mention of the story continuing in Great Comics #4, which didn't come out. With no genuine conclusion, this would have been one of the few comics where a superhero canonically takes down Hitler, something Superman never even did, so you can see where the publisher essentially wrote themselves into a corner by prematurely ending World War II.
Great Comics Publications had an insane ensemble of superhero characters, the craziest of whom had a single but iconic appearance in Great Comics #3. Futuro leads a society of high-tech heroes called the U.S. Futurians with jetpacks that run on cosmic gas. Some of these rocketeers are named Faith, Freedom, Truth, Courage, and Justice. The U.S. Futurians have their flying dog Nimbus track down Adolf Hitler to his castle, who is shown wearing his royal gold/yellow duds. Futuro and his troops use invisibility devices to capture Der Fuehrer. They literally dropkick Hitler into Hell, where a mob of demons hand him over to a foppish Satan. The Devil tries to gain access to Futuro's futuristic powers, so he and Hitler then do a supervillain team up, although their scheme is foiled by Satan's lovesick witch girlfriend. Futuro teleports Hitler out of Hell to "face the justice of mankind", leaving the reader to believe Hitler was packaged off to the Allied Forces for war crimes, but the story ends with Futuro's lackeys asking him what surprise he has in mind, with a mention of the story continuing in Great Comics #4, which didn't come out. With no genuine conclusion, this would have been one of the few comics where a superhero canonically takes down Hitler, something Superman never even did, so you can see where the publisher essentially wrote themselves into a corner by prematurely ending World War II.
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